Railway-train safety device.



No. 843,463. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

D. KEREKES.

RAILWAY TRAINSAFETY DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED SBPT.10,1906.

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DANIEL KEREKES, ,O'F BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE THIRD TO STEPHEN LASKO AND .ONE-THIRD To JOHN PALOVICS, OF

BR IDGEPQRT, CONNECTICUT.

RAILWAY-TRAIN SAFETY DEVICE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Feb. 5, 1907;.

Application-filed September 10,1906. SerialNo.334,07 1' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL KEREKEs,'a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- .Train Safety Devices, of which the following and front car of a railway-train; to design,

the car in such a way as to permit of it being .drawn idly along with the train under ordinary conditions, but in case of a collision as, for instance, a headon collision of two locomotives-to be jammed up under the tender and engine in such a way as to lift the same fromtheir rails and throw them to one side out of the way, thus'serving to relieve the situation, of the most serious feature by taking up the force of the abutting trains, and so retarding the coaches as toprevent them from coming in contact with those of -the.abutting train.

With the above objects in view my invention'resides andconsists in the novel construction and combination of parts shown upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this specification, upon which similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout theseveral figures, and of which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a portion of a railway-train'with my improved derailing device connected therein. Fig. 2

is an enlarged side elevation of the derailingcar shown in Fig. 1; Fig. is a top plan view of the construction shown in Fig. 2.

Upon the accompanyin drawings I have endeavored to illustratet e principle of my device without special reference to minor details, which' obviously can be suppliedor changed'as occasion may require. 1

' Generally speaking, the device comprises a pair of connected trucks "upon which is mounted a pair of inclined rails that are normallyarranged in line with the rails of the track and so supported and arranged as to have their lower forward ends closely follow the surface of the track immediately in the rear of the wheels of the rear truck of the tender. These inclinedrails serve to receive the wheels of the tender whenforced up in case of sudden stoppage of the locomotive,

as in a collision.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings, 5 represents the rear truck, and 6-the front truck, of

my improved device.

7 indicates the rear portion of the body of the car, and 8' standards attached thereto. These standards may obviously'be reinforced in any suitable manner-Ten, for instance,- by means of braces 9. As shown, a forward body 10 is mounted upon the forward truck 6 and is pivotally connected to the rear body by a link-and-pin connection 11, as shown. The inclined rails 12, before mentioned, are

carried upon the truck-bodies 10 and may be-' tied together in any suitablemanner as, for instance, that indicated by 13,- which'obviously retains the rails at a proper distance apart and likewise rigidly in place. The upper edges of the inclined rails are pivoted, as at 14,-to the standards 8, before mentioned, which affords a slight vertical movement to the-forward and lower end of the rails as would be caused in the operation of the device incase ofan accident. The connection between the tender and forward truck of my improved device may be in the form of a'pair- ,of chains 15, as shown, connected intermediate of the bumper of the tender, and ins 16 in the forward body 10 of the car. connections are such as to insure the chains automatically pulling CH of the pins 16 in case the tender. is shoved up on the inclined rails, thus disconnecting the tender and engine from the trains and allowing the same to be thrown out of the way without liability of dragging the cars with them;

17.-represents a tongue, one end of which is hinged to the tender and the other end adapt.

ed to fit in the pocket 18 of the forward body 10. This tongue may be raised and lowered by the lever 19, ivoted to the tender in a way to connect an disconnect its forward end too from the pocket 18, before mentioned. In I the forwarl running of the train this tongue l is designed to be thrown up anal disconnect from the pocket 18, leaving the connection 15 entirely free to draw the train, whereas in i backing the tongue is lowereil, as shownin i Fig. 1, to form a rlgirl connection that will in- 1 sure the movement of the cars in advance of the locomotive, as woul'cl be desired. l

Having thus'describeil my invention, What 1 I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patl ent, isl 1. In a derailing-car for railway-trains, the combination with a rear truck, of a pair of rails pivotallyconnecteil thereto-and arranged at an incline, a front truck to support the 7 lower ends of the rail close to and in line with the rails of the truck.

2. lnailerailing carforrailway-trai s,the combination with a air of trucks plvotelly connect e2 together, a air of rails mounted at an angle upon the forward truck and pivot ally connectezl to the rear truck, and means for connecting said car intermediate of a railway-train.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairiieltl and State of Connecticut, tlns 5th day of September, A. l). 1906.

' DAHIEL KEREKES.

VVit-n esses:

JonN PALOYICS, STEVEN LASKO. 

